Marahelen Coate

1910 - 1997  (86 years)

• Name	Marahelen Coate  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	30 Nov 1910	Piqua, Miami, OH, USA   [4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1950	Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA   [6]
  	Relation to Head of House: Wife; Marital Status: Married
  Death	7 Mar 1997	Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA   [7]
  Burial	11 Mar 1997	Lewis Memorial Park, Asheville, Buncombe, NC, USA   [7]
  Person ID	I10921	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Albert Pickering Coate, *,   b. 12 Oct 1887, Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America d. 2 Jun 1941, Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Maud Coate, *,   b. 14 May 1892, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA d. 27 Mar 1982, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	2 May 1910	Covington, Kenton, KY, USA   [8]
  Family ID	F3009	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles Wesley Fuller,   b. 18 Feb 1905   d. 6 Dec 1998, Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	22 Jul 1930
  Children	1. Charles Wesley Fuller, Jr.,   b. 13 Oct 1934, Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 27 Mar 2016, Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, United States (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Living Fuller  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3093	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Photos		Marahelen Coate Fuller.jpg
  		Marahelen & Charles Fuller.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Marahelen and my father, Albert Edward Coate, were quite close. He can remember them washing the dishes together. If they'd have a tif, he would swat her rear with the dish towel and she would flick him with the dish water. As a senior in high school, her parents sent her of a trip to visit her Uncle Robert and Aunt Margaret in Asheville, NC to thank her for helping with the latest infant in their household. There she met Charles Fuller, a relative of her uncle Robert Fuller. They wrote to each other throughout the following year. When Uncle Robert and Aunt Margaret came for a visit to Ohio the following summer, they brought Charles Fuller along to test the strength of their friendship. Marahelen and Charles became engaged on this visit in Ohio. When she told her mother, her mother dropped a plate of eggs on the floor in surprise. Marahelen and Charles married about a year later in the Coate home in Trenton, Ohio. They went to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon and then settled in Asheville, North Carolina. They purchased their home on 87 Winston Ave., Asheville, NC 28803, in 1831 for a very good price due to the fact that they depression was on. Both Charles and Marahelen worked at Sayles Biltmore Bleacheries, a cloth manufacturer, where they had earned the money to buy their home. They lived in this sturdy house their entire adult lives. They moved in 1994 to a retirement condo also in Asheville, North Carolina. She was intelligent, efficient, artistic, and spent a lifetime as a good southern wife. She could cook a delicious meal for a crowd quickly. This is apparently a skill she developed while helping to raise all of her younger brothers and sister. Charles was the dominant one in their marriage for the first few years only. Once she became a confident adult, her strong-minded ability to keep things organized came to the forefront. She was able to accomplish more at once than any other person my father knew. She would be frying chicken, sewing upholstery, and working on an oil painting all at the same time. I remember her energy and outgoing, friendly nature. (C-2166)

  
  

• Sources

  [S2536] Maud Stevens Coate interviewed by granddaughter, Linda Coate Dudick in Oct. 1977 in Columbus, Ohio. [S446] Albert Pickering Coate and Maude Stevens Family Group Sheet 1982 notes added by Marahelen Fuller and Shirley Coate West. [S267] Albert Edward Coate Interviewed by daughter, Linda Coate Dudick 198? In L. Dudick files (C-72). [S458] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Date:2002 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Madison, Butler, Ohio; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0028; FHL microfilm: 2341488, 1,6224::0. [S1134] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2010 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Middletown Ward 3, Butler, Ohio; Roll: T625_1352; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 60, 1,6061::0. [S240] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: 2470; Page: 74; Enumeration District: 11-25. 1950 United States Federal Census [S2737] Fuller, Marahelen Coate, Mar 7, 1997. Privately held by Linda Coate, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Columbus, OH. 2015. [S1676] Ancestry.com, Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2016 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), 1,61372::0.